We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.

We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

Demos

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

System

Device

Responsible

Availability

Requirements

Comments

Linux PDA

Sharp Zaurus

N. Schaller

Sat&Sun

1xpower

confirmed

GNU/Linux

533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop

Saso Kiselkov

all the time

1xpower

confirmed

GNU/Linux / Windows

1.5Ghz laptop

Saso Kiselkov

not all the time

1xpower

personal laptop

MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows

macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb

Nicolas Roard

not all the time

1xpower

personal laptop

tbd

Flatscreen

Gerold Ruprecht

1xpower

MacOS X

macbook

Quentin Mathé

1xpower

GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X

macbook

Richard Frith-Macdonald

not all the time

1xpower

personal laptop

Books to Show

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

Title

Author

Responsible

Cocoa Programming

Anuish, Buck and Yacktman

Fred Kiefer

Cocoa in a nutshell

Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson

Graham Lee

Programming in Objective-C

Stephen Kochan

Graham Lee

Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition)

Andrew M. Duncan

Nicolas Roard

Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition)

Aaron Hillegass

Nicolas Roard

NeXTSTEP Programming

Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney

Nicolas Roard

The NeXT book

Bruce F. Webser

Nicolas Roard

PostScript Language Reference

Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :)

Nicolas Roard

Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep

Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :)

Nicolas Roard

OpenStep for Enterprises

Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :)

Nicolas Roard

Posters

Topic

Size

Responsible

Comments

GNUstep banner

2m x 30cm?

tbd

Reused from last year

Who will attend the meeting

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting is that you can meet, and talk directly to, other developers, whom you would otherwise meet only virtually (on mailing lists, emails, newsgroups, IRC etc.). We expect many lead developers and contributors to be present, so if you have never met them, you shouldn't miss this occasion!

The following is a list of people of GNUstep fame who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

Who is at the booth

We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

Day

Time Slot

First Name

Second Name

Fall-back

Sa. Feb 24, 2007

14:00 - 16:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

16:00 - 18:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

18:00 - 19:00

N.N.

Su. Feb 25, 2007

09:00 - 10:00

N.N.

10:00 - 12:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

12:00 - 14:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

14:00 - 16:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

16:00 - 18:00

N.N.

N.N.

N.N.

18:00 - 18:30

tear down

Dev-Room Presentations

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?

The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.

Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.

Showtime

Demonstration

Current State

Summary and future Directions

11:00 - 12:00

Nikolaus Schaller

GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones

The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:

why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?

what is different on embedded devices?

what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?

why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?

examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...

12:00 - 13:00

tba.

to be announced

13:00 - 14:00

Helge Hess, Marcus Müller

Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE

14:00 - 15:00

Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé)

Étoilé: a Desktop Environment

15:00 - 16:00

Matt Rice (tbc.)

GNUstep Database Library 2

16:00 - 17:00

tba.

to be announced

17:00 - 18:00

tba.

to be announced

Note: Does anyone have a projector for the talks? The FOSDEM organisation will gives us one if needed, but having our own would be more convenient (if only to have a good one, remember last year)

Questions / To-Do List

How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!

Organizing Committee

Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in)

Few ideas

Extract

use Live CD - even re-released last version

Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.

perform a [Survey]

Portability demonstration

Use several machines side-by side with:

GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system

some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX

some Linux machine

some BSD machine

some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows

some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk